BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 166, 7 September 1877, Page 6

BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL.

The ordinary meeting of the. Bruce. County Council was held at Milton on Tuesday. Present-: AJcfsrs IX. Olttrk' (chairman), Murray,. Pfotrie, Smirh, Wayne, LandelLs; and Robertson. . The minutes of tha prvibus meeting were read and confirmed. '/ A letter was read from Mr )?J . A. "Rislop, Kaifiangata, asking- if 'sufficient time had elapsed since Mr ft. M'Donald, the marnhev of Council for itaitang'nta, had 'attended the meeting of Council to vender his sent, vacant. ■ • Tim letter which, hud beea senc in veply wad read. On the motion of Mr Petrie, seconded I) v.Mr Smith, it. \vi\3 agreed that as M.V M'Donald had been absent from four consecutive meetings of the Council thai he should be ousted from the office. . ,>-.■-•■ A letter was read from the Kaitan-g-uta Road Boai'd, 1 informing' the Council that it intended to spend the sum of L3i an the river bank near the township''of Kaitang-ata. It was resolved' that the Toll house at Clarkesville should be repaired ; also, that the Council should connect the road at the Waihola Hallway Station, by forming- and metalling' it. Accounts amounting 1 to the sum. of L 555 10s id wei*e passed for payment. The Inspector's monthly report wasread and adopted. • . .- ' The receipts from tolls and gold duty durino- the last month amount to LlB9 l 3s 6d.